Apocalypse now?' What Europe's media thought of the Trump speech
Quite a contrast with Canadians chanting "four more years" to Obama, eh?
But, then, we're Americans. What do we care what the rest of the world thinks, right? Right????
Donald Trump might have whipped the crowds into a frenzy with his first speech as the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, but Europe looked on with a mixture of criticism, fear and bemusement.
In London, the left-leaning Guardian newspaper said in its lead that the Republican had struck an "authoritarian tone in [a] convention speech focusing on recent terrorist attacks and police killings to assure Americans' safety will be restored." The right-leaningTelegraph noted that Trump had promised Americans to be the "law and order candidate" and had, in the process, painted what one journalist called a "dark and terrifying" portrait of America.
Quite a contrast with Canadians chanting "four more years" to Obama, eh?
But, then, we're Americans. What do we care what the rest of the world thinks, right? Right????